internet in Debian

[kurianthayil]

(1) I thought of trying Debian ETCH.. i was using RHEL, FC and Ubuntu.. in all the other flavors i was able to configure my broadband easily.. i gave the setting, configure using DHCP.. but here in ETCH, it isn't workin tat way.
(2) I knw etch comes with more than 18000 packages. i have 3 dvds. i thought while installin it ll ask for all the 3 dvds... but it took only one dvd.. i though of specifying the dvd in the 'software updater' option in the administrative panel. I saw an option, 'add cd'.. whn i insert the 2nd dvd and click tat option, nothing is happening.. the software is not gettin updated. synaptic is showing only 830 packages in total. plz suggest a way for these queries.. thank you.

Kurian.

[aliov]

for the DVD's , just open the synaptic package manager and go to repositories then insert the CD after click on add , after that click on reload button and that's should work, for your wifi post the output of iwconfig here.


Regards.

[kurianthayil]

hey im not talking about wifi... im talkin about normal 128kbps broadband line...

[aliov]

Ah , sorry . but this should work ! sorry again i'm not able to know why isn't working in etch , but you see it in ifconfig ?

[iwanabeguru]

hi

find out of your network card identifier, on a fresh install is probably called eth0.

you need add two line to your /etc/network/interfaces file

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

man interfaces
man ifconfig

2.
read "man apt-cdrom"

[Tutku]

maybe etch haz configured the ethernet interface but your interface did not take IP, so if your interface is eth0 try this command:

sudo dhcpcd eth0

for updating via CD or DVD you can copy all *.deb files into /var/cache/apt directory, and then you can use

sudo apt-get upgrade

command

[aliov]

you can try these commands ,but Debian doesn't have any sudores user enabled by default.

Regards.